How Can Doctors Balance Time with the Patient and Technology?

How Can Doctors Balance Time with the Patient and Technology? (0:29)

Healthcare technology can be very helpful during diagnosis and treatment, but also tends to weaken the doctor-patient relationship. HealthMaker Deborah German, MD talks about this delicate balancing act in this video.

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I think one of the challenges that we all have in every discipline with technology is we love new toys and they come out and sometimes we want to play with them even though they're not better than the old way, so we at this Medical School are making our conscious effort that we only use technology where it enhances and improves what we do.

Sometimes technology gets in the way of the doctor,patient relationship and we want to avoid that.

About Deborah German, MD

Deborah German, MD, is the founding dean of the University of Central Florida College of Medicine. She serves as vice president for Medical Affairs and oversees the Medical Education program and the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences